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 06/26/2019 07:33 AM
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3rdworldlover

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Recent reports found that the Trump cabinet member, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, created a "special path" for projects favored by Senate Majority Leader and husband Mitch McConnell for his home state of Kentucky; she retained shares in a construction-materials company for more than a year after promising to relinquish them; and she has "extraordinary proximity to power in China" given her family's American shipping company is largely based in China.

"I am not aware of any situation like this," Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told Yahoo Finance.

"Corruption is the use of public office for private gain, and corrupt activity takes place because it tends to promote, or make policies or decisions that benefit the private interests of ... their family members, if not themselves directly.... this broadly fits in with ... the broad definition of what corruption is."

You're not allowed to use public office for private gain

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...reports-133505604.html
 06/26/2019 07:38 AM
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RustyTruck

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The corruption is rampant and blatant. It's the kind of "in your face" illegality that can only be possible in a state of generalized unaccountability.

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 06/26/2019 08:13 AM
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jdbman

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What is Trump's biggest lie?

10,000 plus hard to sort out.

How about the "drain the swamp" bs?

Or the " I hire the best people" ?

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 06/26/2019 09:27 AM
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johnnyboy

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The biggest? My bet would be "my assets have been placed in a bling trust and I no longer have control over them."

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 06/26/2019 10:29 AM
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Pagerow

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"You're not allowed to use public office for private gain" WHO SAYS?

GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter uses campaign funds for 'Intimate' Extramarital Affairs: Feds

Prosecutors alleged the Republican congressman used campaign funds to woo three lobbyists and one aide to a member of the GOP leadership team.

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 06/26/2019 10:33 AM
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Greensleeves

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Hunter is gong to the slammer! His own wife gone state's witness. Oh yeah baby!

 06/26/2019 11:05 AM
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tpapablo

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Originally posted by: 3rdworldlover "I am not aware of any situation like this," Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told Yahoo Finance. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...reports-133505604.html
Oh, I don't know. How about this? Biden blows that one out of the water.

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